Friday, April 3,
2015

9:30-10:00 Setting the Stage for the Medieval Maya: Climate Change, Urban Diaspora, and a New Regime Lisa J. Lucero

10:00-10:30 Religion, Weather and Climate during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in the North American Southwest William H. Walker

10:30-11:00 Reassessing Models of Climate Change and Social Transformation in the Pueblo World: The Role of Casas Grandes Religion in the Depopulation of the Four Corners Region in the Southwest Michael Mathiowetz

11:00- 11:30 Reviving the Old and Grabbing the New: The Mesoamerican Transformation of the North American Southwest Todd Van Pool and Christine Van Pool

Robert Tierney, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Comparative and World Literature, U of I; Matthew Königsberg, Professor of Japanese Studies, Free University of Berlin; discussant, Lin-yi (Linda) Tseng, (Department of History, U of I)